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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



History: Organized 1957 as a semi-autono- 

 mous constituent society of the American Insti- 

 tute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum 

 Engineers. 100 local sections and subsections in 

 every part of the United States and others in 

 Mexico, Canada, Peru, Saudi Arabia, the Philip- 

 pines, and Indonesia. Divisions : Mining and 

 Exploration, Minerals Beneficiation, Coal, and 

 Industrial. Divisions are divided into technical 

 or commodity committees. 



Purpose: To promote the arts and sciences 

 connected with the economic production of the 

 useful minerals and metals ; to hold meetings 

 for social intercourse and the reading and dis- 

 cussion of professional papers ; to circulate by 

 means of publications among its members the 

 information thus obtained ; and to establish and 

 maintain a place for meeting of its members, 

 and a hall for the reading of papers and delivery 

 of addresses, and a library of books relating to 

 subjects cognate to the sciences and arts of 

 mining and metallurgy. 



Membership : Members : Must be at least 

 twenty-seven years old and have had at least 

 six years employment in engineering or applica- 

 tion of the sciences to any branch of the min- 

 eral industry; must have held positions in re- 

 sponsible charge of engineering or technical 

 work for three years. Associate Members : 

 Persons whose interest or work in a field of sci- 

 ence or engineering represented by one or more 

 of the three constitutent societies is too limited 

 to meet the requirements of the classification of 

 Member. Junior Members : Must be under thirty 

 years of age and qualified to hold a subordinate 

 engineering position. Student Members : Stu- 

 dents in good standing at a degree-granting 

 school approved by the Board of Directors, 

 who have been nominated by one instructor. 

 Students, 500 ; Juniors, 2,000 ; Members and As- 

 sociates, 10,380. Total membership 12,880. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: James Douglas Gold 

 Medal ; William Lawrence Saunders Gold 

 Medal ; Charles F. Rand Memorial Medal ; 

 Erskine Ramsay Gold Medal ; Robert H. 

 Richards Award; Rossiter W. Raymond 

 Award; Robert Peele Memorial Award; Hal 

 Williams Hardinge Award ; Daniel C. Jackling 

 Award and Lecture ; all awards presented in 

 recognition of achievement on a professional 

 basis. Also an annual award in the Annual 

 National Prize Paper Contest for students. In- 

 stitute cooperates with other Founder engineer- 

 ing societies in presentation of other awards : 

 John Fritz Medal, Alfred Nobel Prize, Hoover 

 Medal, and Percy Nichols Award. 



Publications: Mining Engineering, monthly, 

 current volume : 12, $6 to members, $8 domestic 

 non-members, $10 foreign non-members. Mining 



Transactions, annual, current volume: 21, $5. 

 Editor: R. A. Beals. 

 Library: 175,000 volumes; 1,500 periodicals. 



1365. Society of Motion Picture and Television 

 Engineers, Inc. 55 West 42nd Street, New 

 York 36, N. Y. President: Norwood L. Sim- 

 mons, Eastman Kodak Company, 6706 Santa 

 Monica Boulevard, Hollywood 38, Calif. 

 Term expires December 1960. Executive Sec- 

 retary: Charles S. Stodter. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded in 1916 by a group of 

 twenty-four engineers as the Society of Motion 

 Picture Engineers. Television was added to its 

 title and objectives in 1950. Membership in more 

 than sixty countries. Sections : New York, 

 Rochester, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D. C., 

 Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas-Fort Worth, Holly- 

 wood, San Francisco, and Toronto, Canada. 

 Student Chapters : City College of New York, 

 Rochester Institute of Technology, University 

 of Miami, University of Southern California, and 

 Boston University. Engineering Committees : 

 Color, Film Dimensions, Film Projection Prac- 

 tice, Instrumentation and High Speed Photog- 

 raphy, Laboratory Practice, Screen Brightness, 

 16mm and 8mm Motion Pictures, Sound, Stand- 

 ards, Television, Television Studio Lighting, 

 Video-Tape Recording. 



Purpose: Advancement in the theory and 

 practice of engineering in motion pictures, tele- 

 vision, and the allied arts and sciences ; the 

 standardization of equipment and practices em- 

 ployed therein ; the maintenance of a high pro- 

 fessional standing among its members ; guidance 

 of students and the attainment of high stand- 

 ards of education; and the dissemination of sci- 

 entific knowledge by publication. 



Membership: Active, an engineer or scientist 

 or one of equivalent standing in field of motion 

 pictures or television, over twenty-five years of 

 age, 2,570; Associate, technical personnel inter- 

 ested in motion picture and television field over 

 eighteen years of age, 3,225 ; Student, a person 

 registered in college, university, or other educa- 

 tional institution of like scholastic standing in- 

 terested in motion picture or television technol- 

 ogy, 436 ; Sustaining, an individual or company 

 or corporation contributing substantially to the 

 financial support of the Society, 133 ; Honorary, 

 10, and Fellow, 270, are elective memberships. 

 Total membership 6,644. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Professional activities: Annual Awards : 

 Progress Medal, for invention, research, or de- 

 velopment resulting in significant advance in de- 

 velopment of motion picture or television tech- 

 nology ; Samuel L. Warner Memorial Award, 

 for design and development of new and im- 

 proved methods and/or apparatus for sound-on- 



